From Frugal Foundations to Fortified Family Future

Greying_Pilgrim

Jellytotts said:

Hope you save the tin to wear skating 😁

I have a lone spicy sausage that needs to go on a pizza - I may have engineered that there was just enough for a pizza when I portioned everything out.  I’ve been hankering after a pizza for a few weeks now.  Will be a yoghurt and GF flour base and there’s a few sad cherry toms and an onion that can join the sausage.  Might even go mad and open a tin of pineapple.  Oh the decadence!

I shall be 'Olive' from 'Off the buses' in the sidecar to DH's "Arfur!" - I'm sure we can conjour up a costume with a bit of string and a sock garter........ 🤣 Hope we can get to the location in time....... 🎶There's a summer place....🎶🤣

Oh lawks, you've started something now, pineapple on pizza or not...... 3,2,1, 🤣

Greying X

rtandon27

Pineapple BELONGS on pizza 🍕 

...and my English to English translator has just explained English beer kegs, Olive and Arthur and is in hysterics that I still havn't a clue! Thanks for making him laugh!

Blackcats

On the Buses was a favourite in our house when I was a child.  It's certainly of an era but it made us laugh.  "I hate you Butler" 🤣

Greying_Pilgrim

Blackcats said:

On the Buses was a favourite in our house when I was a child.  It's certainly of an era but it made us laugh.  "I hate you Butler" 🤣

Lawks, wasn't it just.  

rt - Glad that your DH has had a laugh.  But I'm not sure you'd have ever seen an episode, it was a very pedestrian comedy, about a bus garage and the staff who worked there.  The drivers always seeking to get 'one up' on the manager - or the "Inspector" - "Blakey" I think his name was - very time and motion/Rules and regulations character.  I think it aired in the UK in the 1960s and 1970's - but I don't think you'd see an episode aired today.

I like pineapple, so wouldn't object to it on a pizza, but I don't think I've ever bothered doing a pizza with pineapple on.  I did actually buy a tin of pineapple in MrAl the other day, as it was in juice and vaguely affordable.  I miss MrL not stocking it anymore.  Tinned pineapple seems to have gone the way of brazil nuts, extinct.

DH and I had burger baps and oven chips for tea.  Not very exciting, but portionable (I finished off the oven chips), and easy.    We watched the Dame Judi D docu about Shakespeare (from some time ago), as we ate.  The docu was very interesting - and DJD's recall of vast swathes of Shakesperian plays, utterly breath-taking.  Although I liked Paterson Joseph's recital too.  

Greying X

northwalesd

Greying_Pilgrim said:

I think it aired in the UK in the 1960s and 1970's - but I don't think you'd see an episode aired today.

Prepare to be vey suprised, it's still regularly shown on ITV3, though usually at some odd hour (like 6:30am)

Greying_Pilgrim

northwalesd said:

Prepare to be vey suprised, it's still regularly shown on ITV3, though usually at some odd hour (like 6:30am)

Really!  Gosh, I wouldn't have thought that would have made the cut ........ 😬  But then the carri on film franchise still seems to air, with remarkable regularity, so........ 

Greying X

redofromstart

They generally have a warning thing at the start saying something about attitudes and opinions at the time etc. 

and going back a few pages JP for me are entirely about getting the right type of potato, some of them are absolutely tasteless and I can see why people don't like them. A proper jacket potato lovingly rubbed with oil and salt flakes can be a thing of absolute joy if it is the right variety, but even some of the premium ones are too bland. Everything used to be Estima which I don't rate, and now harmony/melody/nectar. 

Greying_Pilgrim

You're right redo - those variety of potatoes are the ones most often in a supermercado 'white potato' 2.5kg bags, and I agree, not always the most flavoursome of tatties.  I think LG doesn't like a burnt, leathery skinned potatoes, it isn't so much about the taste with them.  But you can't beat a really tasty, well cooked Maris Piper, or Wilja, can you?

Greying X

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning MFW'rs

Dreich, wet start with us. I'm attempting no washing today, even though there is stuff in the baskets.

We've had a slow-start.  LG has completed some homework and some writing that needed doing.  

It is definitely soup weather.  I might have a look at the Lindsey Bareham list I found this morning, and see if there is a soup that matches ingredients I have.  I can't make the Armenian soup as I have no apricots.  

Tea ..... we have options (always a nice situation to be in), I've just got to make a decision.  I might wheel out the SC  qu0rn bake option again - served with rice.  I had intended to do a batch cook of rice today in the PrC.  

I don't think I need spend any money today.  DH has ordered some spare parts off of the bayofE.  I'm hopeful he's not throwing money away - the parts he bought yesterday were generic and didn't work 🙄  I shall have to ask him if they're returnable.  They weren't expensive, but when you're dropping a fiver here, and a fiver there, it begins to add up 🙄

I can't think of anything else MSE/MFW to add.  

Greying X

rtandon27

@Greying_Pilgrim - you are not the only one who thinks things should go back when unsuitable!

OH and I recently had the same discussion about an item that turned out not to be needed (by me) and that I wanted to return as it was still new and unused.  His advise was to keep it 'just in case' & not bother to return.  I gave him a list of all the things that cash was better used towards and reminded him that if we needed the item down the road, it could be had overnight.  Item went back and money has just hit my account and will be swept into a small overpayment to the mortgage!  I'm also glad it is not taking up limited storage space and depreciating on my shelf!